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Cliffordirmajean Moe Schlrsp Fd Uma

Milwaukee, WI · EIN 20-3523027. Reported 47 grants totalling $463,500 to 23 recipients across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,000median grant
$463,500granted, 2021-2024
23recipients, as named on its returns
89%of grantees funded again the next year
$2,454,760assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Cliffordirmajean Moe Schlrsp Fd Uma did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $4,250 and $10,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $49,950. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
21 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
14 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
6 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
6 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Eastern Washington UniversityCheney, WA$160,875442024
Washington State UniversityRenton, WA$82,900442024
Central Washington UniversityEllensburg, WA$39,600332024
Big Bend Community CollegeMose Lake, WA$25,400542024
University of IdahoMoscow, ID$23,325332024
California Polytechnic State UniversitySan Luis Obispo, CA$20,025442024
Central Washington University FoundationEllensburg, WA$17,650222024
University of Montana - WesternDillon, MT$16,325332024
Spokane Community CollegeSpokane, WA$11,800332024
Brigham Young University - ProvoProvo, UT$8,000112024
Wenatchee Valley CollegeWenatchee, WA$7,250332024
Memorial University of NewfoundlandSt Johns$5,500112024
North Idaho CollegeCoeur Dalene, ID$5,500112021
Whitworth UniversitySpokane, WA$5,500112021
Spokane Falls Community CollegeSpokane, WA$4,700112021
Western Washington UniversityBellingham, WA$4,700112021
Willamette UniversitySalem, OR$4,700112021
St Thomas UniversityMiami Gardens, FL$4,250112023
Eastern Oregon UniversityLa Grande, OR$4,000112024
Perry Technical InstituteYakima, WA$3,500112024
University of WashingtonSeattle, WA$3,500112024
Corban UniversitySalem, OR$3,000112024
Lane Community CollegeEugene, OR$1,500112024

10 of 23 (43%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 89%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 27 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Education
24 grants
Arts & Culture
3 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202110$121,400$5,500
20229$111,050$5,000
202311$118,300$6,325
202417$112,750$4,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

80% of its giving went to organizations in Washington. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

Washington
$367K
Idaho
$29K
California
$20K
Montana
$16K
Oregon
$13K
Utah
$8K
Florida
$4K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc13 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc11 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund11 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program11 shared recipientsWalter E & Helen W Bruckert9 shared recipientsAmerican Endowment Foundation7 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Washington.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Cliffordirmajean Moe Schlrsp Fd Uma's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 0634, Milwaukee, WI, 53201. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 20-3523027 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded.

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